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The French government will allocate more than $2.2 million to finance 148 scholarships awarded this year to Peruvian students willing to follow postgraduate courses in French universities, the university cooperation attaché at the French Embassy in Peru, Nelson Vallejo-Gómez said today.

This amount could rise in the future if the Peruvian government turns this program into a pilot project and national goal, which would increase the number of scholarship holders next year, the French representative stated.

Vallejo-Gómez added that the University Cooperation Service of the French Embassy; the Strategic Partnership of public universities including the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería and Universidad Agraria la Molina and the Universidad San Antonio Abad of Cusco; the Alliance Française and Campus France made this program possible for the second consecutive year.

He pointed out that last year 87 scholarship holders were sent to France and this year there will be 148 students, 30 of them from Peru’s provinces as part of the association agreement with the Universidad San Antonio Abad of Cusco.

At present, more than 800 Peruvians study in French universities, a higher number compared to the number of students from Chile or Argentina.

News source: ANDINA